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		<p class="purpose">The core compiler in a natural-language design system for interactive fiction. This is version 10.2.0.</p>
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					<p class="chapterentry"><a name="M"></a>
						<span class="chaptertitle">Manual</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="M-cu.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Command-Line Usage</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">A brief note on using Inform 7 at the command line.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="M-iwtg.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Interacting with the GUI</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">A few notes on how the GUI apps should use the Inform command line.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="M-cifc.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Calling Inform from C</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">In 2021, Inform gained the ability to generate C code which could be used as part of a larger program, for example in a framework such as Unity.</span></p>
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							<p class="sectionentry"><a href="M-rc.html">
								<spon class="sectiontitle">Reference Card</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">The current help information as it would be printed at the command line.</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Performance Metrics</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">Typical memory consumption, running time, and other statistics.</span></p>
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						<span class="chaptertitle">Chapter 1: Delegation</span></p>
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								<spon class="sectiontitle">Main</span></a> -
							<span class="sectionpurpose">The command-line interface for the Inform 7 compiler tool.</span></p>
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		<p class="purpose">This program also incorporates the following web(s) as module(s):</p>
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					<a href="../assertions-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">assertions</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Dealing with top-level declarations in Inform source text.</span></p>
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					<a href="../core-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">core</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">The core of the Inform compiler, as a module.</span></p>
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					<a href="../if-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">if</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">The interactive-fiction specific layer of Inform, as a module.</span></p>
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					<a href="../imperative-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">imperative</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Compiling imperative code inside phrase or rule definitions.</span></p>
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					<a href="../knowledge-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">knowledge</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Storing and reconciling the facts asserted by assertion sentences.</span></p>
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					<a href="../multimedia-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">multimedia</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A multimedia extension module for Inform.</span></p>
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					<a href="../runtime-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">runtime</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Generating runtime support code for resources needed in Inform texts.</span></p>
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					<a href="../values-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">values</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Representing and parsing values, descriptions and conditions.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../supervisor-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">inbuild/supervisor</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">The central part of the build manager.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../building-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">inter/building</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">An intermediate layer for building code in Inter.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../bytecode-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">inter/bytecode</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Dealing with intermediate-level Inform as bytecode in memory.</span></p>
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					<a href="../final-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">inter/final</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Final code generation from fully-processed Inter.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../index-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">inter/index</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Generating the index for an Inform project.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../pipeline-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">inter/pipeline</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">The code generation pipeline.</span></p>
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					<a href="../arch-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/arch</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Definitions of Inter and final VM architectures.</span></p>
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					<a href="../calculus-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/calculus</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Storing and simplifying propositions in predicate calculus.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../html-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/html</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">Support for HTML problem, index and extension documentation pages.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../inflections-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/inflections</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library for adapting words or short phrases for linguistic purposes.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../kinds-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/kinds</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">The type system used by Inform.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../lexicon-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/lexicon</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library of code to assign and retrieve meanings for excerpts of text.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../linguistics-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/linguistics</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library of code to create grammatical categories of vocabulary.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../problems-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/problems</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">The issuing mechanism for problem messages used by Inform.</span></p>
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			<li>
				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../syntax-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/syntax</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library of code to build a parse tree and break text into sentences.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../words-module/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">services/words</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library of code for reading natural language into a stream of words.</span></p>
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			<li>
				<p class="moduleentry">
					<a href="../foundation/index.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">inweb/foundation</span></a>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library of utility functions for command-line tools.</span></p>
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				<p class="moduleentry">
					<spon class="sectiontitle">inweb/literate</span>
					- <span class="sectionpurpose">A library of utility functions for literate programming.</span></p>
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		<p class="purpose">Powered by <a href="https://github.com/ganelson/inweb">Inweb</a>.</p>
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